the article claims the Chinese white paper targets manned lunar landing in the next 5 years. Is that true? If so it suggest very big gamble on Americans being 3 years late and China beating Americans back to the moon, Else why the compressed schedule?
The author apparently did not read the 5 year white paper, but instead quoting from other source who did not read the white paper either. Typical "trash in trash out".
The white paper said "中国航天将深化载人登月方案论证", translated to "China will further conduct in-depth study of manned moon landing solutions" in the next 5 years.
I have been advocating in this forum that China is NOT racing with US in a childish size contest as the spacedaily article is trying to portray, this is true not only in space industry but also military and geopolitcs. It is something that China watcher must keep in mind all the time.